If I get this right you are saying that it is the amount of time the plant stays in flower that causes it to start to show male flowers and not a micro dose of Nitrogen.
Are you suggesting that if your plant had been harvested 20 days sooner then it might not have become a "hermaphrodite" or produced male flowers or seeds?
My plant was 10 days behind my roommates. He was micro dosing Pot of Gold liquid 1-1-1 and wasnt telling me because he was worried I would get angry with him for using it without saying something. Which to me is stupid because I know when someone is lying If I know them. I knew he was BSing me but didnt know what it was about until I asked him exactly if he was putting pot of gold in his plant. Then I still had to prove it because he still said no. I knew he was BSing because everyone has a tell. His tell is long pause before he responds. Like unusually long.
But he did it before the plant was in heavy bud. It was probably pre and before mid flower then he went back to the schedule but cut all the nutes to half until the plant was finished.
When I proved what he was doing because he left a bottle of it mixed in the basement and he messed up and used my colored water bottles instead of his colored water bottles i confronted him and asked him again once more. Then when he said no I said, "Then why is there a bottle mixed with pot of gold in the basement behind the pillar?
He knew at that point he was busted. I told him its 18 dollars a bottle, so stop BS me about things because I take every piece of info into consideration. You had me scratching my head for two weeks wondering why my plant was yellowing through the center but was dark as can be on two of the four ends.
Then mine by that time was in mid flower so I started micro dosing mine. To get it darker because it was yellowing through the center of the plant. The micro dosing worked and it did darken it up. But as soon as I stopped micro dosing and went right back to the normal schedule it started lightening up again through the same center.
The problem was I knew how much to use biweekly but in the translation from my first grow and my second I forgot it was 1 tablespoon per gallon and had been giving it 1 teaspoon per gallon. So I assumed that was the issue.
When I was dosing it to darken it up I dosed it every watering (which was every other day it was drying out on top and was light) for about 10 days.
By that time the flowers were really large. So I cut back. No tip burn no nute burn. So all seemed well.
It was only at about 80 days at that point. So then I just let it go on the regular schedule because it fox tailed. It was nearly ready to harvest but the fox tailing caused me to cut a few of them off then someone said why cut them off its just more bud? So I said then I will just let them grow. That is how mine got to 122 days. I just kept letting it go until I saw all the fox tailing with nice white trichs. They overgrew the flowers that were there almost totally. Making them way larger. And some of the under bud had ambered. Which Lemon Haze is not supposed to amber. But the foxtails had nice milky trichs.
At 90 days I saw seeds starting to grow and I thought they maybe came from my other plant (a mixed strain of Blueberry Pancakes and Pistachio) because it also hermied. And had a lot of them.
It was the same age. But it was still no where near 10 percent amber trichs. So I let it keep going too.
I also found just a few hermies on the lemon haze but after the seeds started forming.
At 122 days I harvested them both.
The reason I let the Lemon Haze go is because I figured if its screwed up Im going to let these seeds mature so I dont have to buy more.
And sure enough... Now I am growing one of those Lemon Haze Auto seeds. And come to find out the BBP Pistachio plant did NOT fertilize the Lemon Haze. The Lemon haze fertilized itself.
